> For me this ordering is disastrous since in my work I name some experiment
> result files starting with a three-character shorthand notation of the
> date
> the experiment was conducted. Thus, 561=1 June 2005, 571=1 July 2005,
> 56k=20
> June 2005 and 5a1=1 October 2005. Normal, intuitive file name sorting
> would
> thus yield correct chronological ordering of the files.
> Also I was surprised at first to find that after data treatment, the file,
> say, "result12" which was the average of "result1" and "result2" did not
> position itself between result1 and result2 but came after result3.

The part I don't understand is that Explorer's just presenting a view of the
files sitting in the file system. Any automated process that enumerates
files shouldn't be influenced by Explorer's sort order.